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[Cameroon Tribune] The trainees will also serve as trainers in the days ahead.
Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
[Cameroon Tribune] This year's event was launched during a press briefing on November 11, 2020 in Yaounde.
MADRID/EL SALVADOR, (Reuters) - Spain’s High Court sentenced a former army colonel from El Salvador yesterday to 133 years in prison for the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in 1989 during the Central American country’s civil war.
The article ‘Justice prevailed:’ Salvadoran ex-colonel gets 133 years for priest slayings appeared first on Stabroek News.
But the conservative Republican member of Congress still vows to push Donald Trump's "America First agenda with my congressional colleagues."
The Black Automotive Media Group (BAMG) has challenged the nation’s automakers to address fairness and equity regarding Black media who cover the industry. BAMG is a distinguished group of seven Black reporters and writers who have over 150 years of combined experience in automotive journalism within radio, television, print, videography, event planning, and influencing, and social media. They represent a coalition of Black journalists who either work for or own various automotive media platforms. In a letter to 20 U.S. market automaker brands, the BAMG outlined concerns over a lack of inclusion for Blacks in automotive media and in automobile industry corporate positions. Automakers were asked to take action on the three pillars outlined in the letter: • Access to press and special events • The lack of automotive advertising and marketing dollars for Black-owned Websites, newspapers, magazines, broadcast media, and marketing events • The lack of Black professionals who participate in developing, designing, engineering, or promoting new vehicles The letter also noted the lack of diversity on the North American Car, Truck, and Utility of the Year (NACTOY) Jury, a prestigious panel of 50 North American journalists and engineers, which as of the release of our letter had no Black Jurors. The BAMG feels that addressing these pillars is crucial to reversing decades of exclusion that Black automotive journalists have faced. As a result of the letter, all manufacturers responded, and a series of video calls were executed. The conversations were informative and sometimes uncomfortable, and souls on both sides of the discussions were bared. “We need to be an adequate part of the solution,” said one automaker. “We need a strategic corporate reset,” said another. “These are interesting times of reflection for everyone. But it also marks a moment of introspection for each individual that, in turn, comprises the totality of corporate culture in America,” said BAMG member Kimatni D. Rawlins. “And the auto industry is not absolved due to equivalent philosophies, directives, and practices that have excluded African Americans from receiving a fair share of the resources and opportunities extended to mainstream media.” Some brands responded with immediate solutions and pledges to enhance their diversity efforts to at least 15 percent for press event representation. However, a few were less than contrite, which was disturbing. The BAMG made it clear that diversity directives can only be successful when the mission and portfolio are integral parts of the corporate vision. Other progress includes electing two Black male journalists onto the NACTOY Jury shortly after a panel discussion with the Motor Press Guild (MPG) on the plight of Black journalists in automotive media, and after the BAMG industry letter reached automakers. Most manufacturers asked for assistance from the BAMG in identifying the “next generation” of young Black journalists and social media devotees who are rising stars in automotive media. These conversations are but a
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• Cheryl Adrienne Brown, Miss New York, became the first African American contestant in the Miss America pageant
• (August 7) Angela Davis, radical black activist and philosopher, was arrested as a suspected conspirator in the abortive attempt to free George Jackson from a courtroom in Marin County, California
• (January 11) Mary J. Blige born (singer)
• Beverly Johnson appears on the cover of Glamour, the first African American woman to be featured that way by a major fashion magazine
• Mahalia Jackson died (gospel singer)
• Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman candidate for President, with more than 150 delegate votes at the 1972 Democratic convention
• Barbara Jordan elected to Congress, the first African American woman from a former Confederate state to be elected to the House
• Yvonne Braithwaite Burke elected to Congress, the first black woman elected to the House from California
• Patricia Roberts Harris became chair of the Democratic National Convention; Yvonne Braithwaite Burke was co-chair of the convention
• Haitian boat people begin arriving in Florida
• Angela Davis acquitted in California by an all-white jury of charges from a 1970 shootout
• (January 27) Mahalia Jackson died (singer)
• (July 7) Lisa Leslie born (basketball player)
• Eleanor Holmes Norton and others found the National Black Feminist Organization.
• Marion Wright Edelson creates the Childrens Defense Fund.
• Cardiss Collins elected to Congress from a Chicago district, succeeding her husband
• Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman elected to Congress
• Alberta Williams King, Martin Luther King, Jr.s mother, and a deacon, were killed during services at Ebenezer Baptist Church
• Mary Bush Wilson becomes first African American woman board chair of the NAACP (the first chair, Mary White Ovington, was a white woman)
• Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges - she had stabbed a jailer with an ice pick to avoid sexual assault
• Leontyne Price awarded Italys Order of Merit
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THE UK'S only black (Afro-Caribbean) female professor of Computer Science, Dorothy Monekosso, has been awarded...
The post Barrier-breaking computer science professor awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Chartered Institute for IT appeared first on Voice Online.
The local community is reeling from the recent passing of Wayne County Commissioner Jewel Ware (D-Detroit), who died of a reported heart attack on Dec. 8. She was the current Commission's vice-chair pro tempore. In a statement, Mayor Mike Duggan expressed his condolences. 'Our city mourns the loss of one of Detroit and Wayne County's … Continued
The post Jewell Ware, Wayne County Commissioner Passes At 66 appeared first on The Michigan Chronicle.
[Cameroon Tribune] With busy schedules, some women have resorted to setting fitness goals, tracking caloric intake, and gathering workout ideas through fitness applications.
Chief of Staff, Brigadier Godfrey Bess, today reiterated the apolitical nature and posture of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), when he met with senior diplomats of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada and the European Union, this afternoon, in the Conference Room, Defence Headquarters, Base Camp Ayanganna.
The article GDF `reiterates apolitical' stance in meeting with western envoys appeared first on Stabroek News.
